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Charles Goodnight (March 5, 1836 – December 12, 1929), also known as Charlie Goodnight, was a rancher in the American West. [1] In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum .
Recurring characters include Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Woodrow F. Call, Joshua Deets, Pea Eye Parker, Jake Spoon, Clara Forsythe Allen, Maggie Tilton, Lorena Wood Parker, Blue Duck, and Buffalo Hump. The series is set within historical events and characters, although they are often adapted or altered to accommodate the fictional timelines of the ...
According to McMurtry, Gus and Call were not modeled after historical characters, but similarities exist with real-life cattle drivers Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving. When Goodnight and Loving's African American guide Bose Ikard died, Goodnight carved a wooden grave marker for him, just as Call does for Deets. Upon Loving's death ...
On the plains, Blue Duck continues to attack and kill settlers. Led by Charles Goodnight, the Rangers and cavalry locate a Comanche camp, and recapture "the Parker girl", now a woman who has assimilated to the Comanche. Heading back to Austin, they meet Clara Allen, who is visiting to sell her family's property.
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent.It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
Sheridan is the co-creator of Yellowstone and also portrays Charles Goodnight in 1883. Maria Julian as Kate (seasons 4–5; guest season 3), Jamie Dutton's assistant after becoming the Attorney General of Montana. Will Patton as Garrett Randall (season 4; guest season 3), Jamie's biological father.
The book opens with former Ranger Captain Woodrow F. Call (now a bounty hunter) and Ned Brookshire, the "salaried man" of the title. Brookshire has been sent to Texas from New York City by his boss, railroad tycoon Colonel Terry, to contract Call's services in apprehending a bandit.
Bose Ikard (1843 – January 4, 1929) was an African-American cowboy who participated in the pioneering cattle drives on what became known as the Goodnight–Loving Trail, after the American Civil War and through 1869. Aspects of his life inspired the fictional character Joshua Deets, the African-American cowboy in Larry McMurtry's novel ...